Focal
Point Publications(FPP) began its operations in
1980, created by David Irving's Focus Group, a small,
ad hoc society of Londoners interested in preserving the
British way of life. For a while it issued an irregular
newsletter, Focal Point, to a mailing list of about five
hundred. The group spawned an informal private dining
society, The
Clarendon Club, which met
irregularly until the activities of the traditional
enemies of Free Speech made
further meetings virtually impossible.

As these pressures began, roughly in
1982, FPP began to take action to preserve what Mr Irving
calls Real History. He founded an International Campaign for
Real History, conducting a campaign of historical lectures
at universities and to public societies, which took him
around the world several times. In 1987 an associated
publisher in Australia issued the first volume of Mr
Irving's biography of Winston
Churchill.

Ugly pressures were already
beginning on the British publishing industry in an
attempt
to force FPP out of business.
Mr Irving's flagship biography of the Nazi leader Hitler was
followed in short order by his transcript of the unpublished
1938 diaries
of Dr Joseph Goebbels (right), then in 1996 by a full-scale
biography
of the Nazi propaganda minister and in 1997 by Mr Irving's
history of the post-war Nuremberg
trials. The year 2001 saw the publication of
Churchill's
War, vol. ii, andthe
following year the Millennium edition of "Hitler's War".
Plans were abandoned to publish Joe Bellinger's book on
Heinrich Himmler's mysterious suicide, on quality grounds,
while a book by Mark
Deavin on Harold Macmillan's
Hidden Agenda has made only slow prsogress; future
publications were to include a work on the Allied liberation
of Dachau
concentration camp but author Charles Provan died before he
could complete it.

Despite the
continuing pressures to silence him, Mr Irving persists,
with FPP, in what he describes as ploughing (plowing) a
straight furrow.

DAVID
IRVINGruns
FPP as an equal-opportunity employer, allowing no
discrimination on grounds of race, creed, or sex. His
permanent
salaried staff
has included Barbadian, Sri Lankan, Jewish, and Punjabi
staff. He will not publish manuscripts which do not meet
his own criteria; he will not lend his name or authority
to gratuitously offensive tracts, ad hominem attacks, or
concealed or overt anti-Semitic, anti-German, or
anti-anything-else propaganda. He accepts full personal
responsibility for all the words published on this
Website (but not for those to which, in the spirit of the
Web, it offers links).